Year: 2009

Should we stop and help? We don’t have time. Somebody else will help. Look at all of those other people passing them up; we aren’t the only ones who didn’t stop. They have a cell phone, everybody does; they can call for help if they need something. It’s several people, and there are some capable men, they can take care of themselves.

Somebody else said it first, but that is the case with us. Why wouldn’t it be that way? When nothing is being done, it’s virtually impossible to do wrong. There might be exceptions to the rule, such as sitting around all day or sleeping too much, but those are usually mistakes in themselves.

And, our present was just what we wanted. Actually, it was just what we had to have. We got a new car. We’d rather have had a new horse, but we already have way too many of them, and they can’t go fast enough in the short time our schedule requires. Yes, our forefathers journeyed with horses, but they traveled in days instead of minutes like we do.

Actually, it’s one of the few television shows us old cowboys can still watch without getting red behind the ears. Although TV gets very little of our time percentage-wise, we remember watching that show decades ago, and have even seen it a couple of times in the past year. Fortunately, it airs on one of the three stations our set receives these days.

That old familiar saying certainly had truth to it. Before the twisted, prickly wire’s invention, cattle generally had free roam of the range. They went wherever they pleased, and unless clearly branded, were often free for the claiming.